Digital Painting Or Regular Art work

Digital painting, for folks who remain unaware, is an art form form where traditional painting techniques are demonstrated using digital tools in computer software, or perhaps a digitizing tablet and stylus. The “artist” uses painting techniques to generate the digital painting on the computer. Within the programs are brushes which are digitally styled to portray the traditional style of painting much like oils, acrylics, and water paint.

Creating with the effectation of charcoal, pen, and pastels can also be an available tool. In many programs, an individual can also create their particular brush style using both shape and texture, posters which is important in bringing traditional and digital painting together as a geniune looking product.

Although digital painting has long been a fascinating subject in my experience, and I think it’s amazing how a technique is executed in minutes when it normally takes days to have exactly the same effect by hand, I can’t help but think it eliminates the integrity of a real painting done with a truly skilled artist. With “digital” painting there is no real artistic talent used in applying the techniques which are mimicked by digital painting programs. They’re applied by using digital tools in the computer software. It’s hard for a normal artist to consider a person using this kind of software as authentic. Not saying they don’t have an “eye” for color or have a lack of vision, but what about the skill of actually using physical mediums and tools? And undoubtedly the impression of accomplishment that is included with finishing a painting that has been lovingly labored on for a time, mixing paint to have the perfect color, and, by trial and error, getting that effect you’ve been striving to achieve. The whole style of the artist is different.

Many traditional artists are extremely physical using their paintings and uses hands, feet, clothes and other things that to obtain a certain effect or texture. They like to mix the paints with an actual palette knife, use mediums to adjust the paints, apply the paints to a real surface, and work a painting until it is finished with great satisfaction. They especially appreciate learning from mistakes made and skillfully correcting them… not by selecting “undo” in a pc software program, but by hand.

I can see where it would be tempting to use a digital program only for the very fact you’ve a palette of a million colors to choose from, and the capability to get back mistakes in a instant. However, it’s still apparent in my experience these digital programs should be utilized primarily for work and school projects or on a commercial level for graphic designers. Fine artists who would like a hands-on relationship with painting mediums and their smells, canvases and their textures, and the overall messiness of using their fingers as tools should stay authentic and true to their craft.